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Speaker 1: So medical news you'll have heard about the change to

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Speaker 1: some medicines to twelve months scripts also GPS. In this

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Speaker 1: practitioners now can prescribe ADHD medications to adults without a

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Speaker 1: specialist sign off. Darren Bull as the spokesperson for ADHD

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Speaker 1: New Zealand and is with us. Darren, very good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you, Good morning, hey, doing very well.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, this is a major especially people trying to get

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Speaker 1: access to specialists, because trying to get access to specialists

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Speaker 1: is a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: Correct, yeah, correct. This is the biggest change for ADHD

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Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety nine, which which point they made all

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Speaker 2: the diagnosis and prescribing with specialists help. We know from

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Speaker 2: our community is that this has led to enormous light times,

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Speaker 2: access issues and really for many the only solutions going private.

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Speaker 1: How has it been allowed to carry on for so long.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of issues around awareness and understanding of ADHD.

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Speaker 2: We've been working on this for ten years and when

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Speaker 2: we started, many people thought ADHD was the domain of

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Speaker 2: little boys and I remember Northern South article which had

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Speaker 2: ADHD or naughty little boys. This is the awareness we've

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Speaker 2: had to change. ADHD is prevalent in adults and shock

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Speaker 2: females as well.

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Speaker 1: We should also point out that the GPS and this

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Speaker 1: spectitioners who will be doing the work have to be trained,

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Speaker 1: so they are specialists in their own way, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, So there is significant training. Not all gps

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Speaker 2: will do it. We understand about six hundred have gone

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Speaker 2: through the training put on by the Royal College. One

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Speaker 2: thing I will add really important. This is not a

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Speaker 2: fifteen minute interview. No, this is not your usual GP

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Speaker 2: vis it.

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Speaker 1: No, of course not. And there is an expense that

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Speaker 1: comes with it as well. So basically does this solve

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Speaker 1: the access problem.

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Speaker 2: It's the first step in solving the access problem. Yes,

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Speaker 2: will provide easy access by more providers, but that will

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Speaker 2: take time to fully embed in the Xeno medical system

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Speaker 2: and also there are still some cost barriers as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate time very much. Darren Bolt, spokesperson for

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